Undisputed WWE Champion John Cena appeared at FAN EXPO Philadelphia this weekend and touched on several interesting topics while taking questions from fans.
The Leader of the Cenation will end his in-ring career this December when he concludes his retirement tour (likely in Boston). Cena signed with WWE way back in 2001, and admitted that his biggest regret is a decision he made at ECW One Night Stand in 2006.
At the event, he put the WWE Championship on the line against Rob Van Dam inside the iconic Hammerstein Ballroom.
"The audience was pretty bad," Cena recalled. "The event started at about seven o'clock, and we weren’t on until last, and at around seven, they were so audibly chanting 'F*** You Cena,' so I know when I went out at ten o'clock, it was going to be pretty gnarly."
"So, we get out there and I have a wrestling match with my t-shirt before I have a wrestling match with Rob, and I look at the [If Cena Wins, We Riot] sign and I heard the crowd and I would never do this again, it was the most stupid decision of my life, but I told Rob, 'Hey, let’s go out into the audience.'"
"I just wanted to see what would happen," he added. "Thank you everyone in the Hammerstein Ballroom for being professional being great fans and letting me know how you feel here [points at head] and not letting me know how you feel here [gestures with a closed fist], because I thought I was gonna get my ass kicked but everybody was real nice."
"That’s a story I’ve never told and it’s something I’m like 'Hey, man, let’s just go out and see what the audience is all about.' What a stupid choice. I should never have done that, but everyone treated me with kindness," Cena concluded.
Cena was also asked about his three top WWE rivalries, naming The Rock, CM Punk—and when he was prompted by a fan—his recent Backlash opponent, Randy Orton.
Later, he briefly hyped up his match with R-Truth at Saturday Night's Main Event. "How in the space-time continuum can I be R-Truth’s childhood hero when he’s 150 years old?" the 48-year-old said of the 53-year-old fan favourite. "It doesn’t make any sense."
Cena vs. Truth is an intriguing bout, and one that we didn't expect to see during Cena's retirement tour. Many fans still hope he'll eventually face CM Punk, though we still don't know who will be the one to retire the 17-time WWE Champion.